འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5.25

5.25

That in which conceptual elaboration is quelled is the Dharma.’ I wonder if what I said here is a discourse on the Dharma? Blessed One, do you consider my discourse on the Dharma to be in accord with those already given?”

The Blessed One said, “Great Kāśyapa, your Dharma discourse is in accord.”

The venerable Subhūti next addressed the Blessed One: “Blessed One, the term dharma used here is a way of referring to what has no sound. Phenomena emit no sound. The eyes do not emit sound to forms, nor do the ears to sounds, the nose to scents, the tongue to tastes, the body to textures, or the mind to mental phenomena. Such is the Dharma. How is it that the eyes do not emit sound to forms? They do not come into contact. The eyes do not contact forms, the ears do not contact sounds, the nose does not contact scents, the tongue does not contact tastes, the body does not contact textures, and the mind does not contact mental phenomena. That which does not come into contact does not emit a sound.

“Blessed One, when there is no duality, sound is not emitted to phenomena.¹⁶⁴ Blessed One, all phenomena lack duality. One cannot be known or understood via another. They cannot be conceptualized or conceived of. They do not arise or come to an end. They do not diminish or increase. They are not attached or detached. They do not cycle in saṃsāra or pass into nirvāṇa. They belong to no one. They are nothing at all.¹⁶⁵ They cause neither anxiety nor attachment.¹⁶⁶ Blessed One, they are neither pollution nor purity. Blessed One, this is what I have understood, and this is what I have realized.